Shoppers are warned to check prices and be wary of high-pressure sales techniques.

The entrepreneur called the diver a "pedo" after he ridiculed his effort to help missing Thai boys.

Orbex/Anders Bøggild

The United Kingdom has entered the race to develop low-cost, high-volume rockets for small satellites. Orbex, a British-based company with subsidiaries and production facilities in Denmark and Germany, announced Monday that it has raised $40 million from public and private sources to develop what it is calling the "Prime" launch vehicle.

The company intends to launch Prime from a new spaceport—also just announced—that will be located in northern Scotland. This facility would be the first commercial vertical launch site in the United Kingdom, and represents a significant investment in rocket infrastructure by the British government after decades of dormancy.

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The UK Space Agency backs Scotland's north coast as the place to launch satellites to orbit.

Roku

Roku focuses heavily on its licensing programs, which allow OEMs to make TVs, soundbars, and other devices that use Roku software and work seamlessly with Roku devices. But now, Roku's getting into the audio business with an in-house product: the company announced the Roku TV Wireless Speakers today, a set of two HomePod-esque speakers designed to work exclusively with Roku TVs. It also developed the new Roku Touch tabletop voice remote that some users may find more useful and less intrusive than Amazon's Alexa.

While the tech specs of the speakers haven't been released yet, we know how they'll connect to and work with Roku TVs. The speaker set pairs wirelessly with Roku TVs via Roku Connect, and, thanks to built-in software that works with Roku OS, the speakers will sync up with whatever you're watching on the smart TV. Roku told Ars in a briefing that the speakers will play optimized audio from anything connected to the paired Roku TV, including cable boxes, antennas, and even Bluetooth devices like your smartphone.

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Mel Chin’s virtual flooding of Times Square is fascinating, but reveals the drawbacks of technology.

Teardown drills into new design

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The company behind a Kodak-branded crypto-currency scheme confirms the plan has collapsed.

No Marvel, no problem as DC and a raft of other franchises like Transformers and Predator vie for the limelight.

Because not everyone needs a bajillion horsepower and the price tag that comes with it.

Dungeon generator also excellent at training agents in procrastination

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The Travel Show's Lucy Hedges looks at the latest in smart luggage.

Fans finally get the Alien 3 story they've been waiting for after more than 30 years... in comic book form.

Civil liberties group visits Washington for four-day data and privacy talks

The US is under increasing pressure over Privacy Shield as an EU lawyers' association backed MEPs’ calls for a suspension of the deal.…

A typo in the code of a poorly reviewed game from 2013 is being blamed for one of its biggest problems.

The Great British Space Age has begun.

And definitely not copper, argues Cityfibre

Most Brits think ads for “fibre” broadband ought to mean “fibre to the premises” and not “fibre to the cabinet”, according to a survey sponsored by a FTTP company.…

The prime minister promises extra investment for industry weeks after Airbus threatened to leave UK.

The telecom giant's shares jumped in Chinese trading.

Microsoft's apology for Windows 8 is maturing nicely

Sunday is a big day in Vulture Central. No, not the football. Sunday is three years to the day when Microsoft’s apology for the Windows 8 generation was released to computer makers.…